2009/10/23 jwc_wensan <[email protected]>: > In all the articles I have read and some examples, it only talks about using > SQLite as the database on the users' PC/Mac. Is that the only database that > can be used locally?
Because AIR has support for sockets, there are ongoing projects to give AIR the ability to talk to other databases. Here's one for mysql (http://code.google.com/p/assql/). You don't get the one-click install though. Also, given AIR 2.0 has support for native executables, you could if push comes to shove, use a native executable to be the conduit between AIR and whatever database you want.

